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Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He held academic positions at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge University (Magdalene College, 1954–1963). He is best known for his works of fiction, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy, and for his non-fiction Christian apologetics, such as Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

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[The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that.

Fighting, Hold, Life, Self, Spiritual, Tooth

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

Clever, Look, Looks, Queens, Red, Sticky

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.

People, Body, Praise, Bodies, Blush

If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them.

Aim, Aware, Devil, Fails, Firsts, Giving

Puddleglum,' they've said, 'You're altogether too full of bobance and bounce and high spirits. You've got to learn that life isn't all fricasseed frogs and ell pie. You want something to sober you down a bit. We're only saying it for your own good, Puddleglum. ' That's what they say. Now a job like this --a journey up north just as winter's beginning looking for a prince that probably isn't there, by way of ruined city nobody's ever seen-- will be just the thing. If that doesn't steady a chap, I don't know what will.

Full, Good, High, Jobs, Journey, Winter

Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

Christian, Circles, Earth, Fire, Friends

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Campaigns, Disguise, Enemy, Kings, Say, Take

Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams — dreams, do you understand — come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams.

Dream, Dreams, Men, Rage, Real, Sort

A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

Beer, Coffee, Horse, Hot, Mash, Pavenders

The command "Be ye prfect" is not idealistic gas. Nor is it a command to do the impossible. He said (in the Bible) that we were "gods" and he is going to make good his words. He will make us into a god or goddess, a dazzling, radiant, immortal creature. . . a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly.

Mirrors, Perfection, Promise, Idealistic, Bible, Radiant

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Exercise, Rebel, Resists, Successors, Thought Provoking, Tradition

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

Devil, Life, Religious, Thinking, Whenever

What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.

Dream, Father, Men, Morning, Prince, Young

And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?" "I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class. " "You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?" "Well my mum's name is Helen. . . " "Y-yes, but, you are in fact. . . human?

Class, Daughter, Girl, Human, Mean, Tallest

Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is, for all mankind except the poor.

Atheist, Contempt, Except, Mankind, Opiates, People

A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company. " Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

Child, Children, Comfort, Mother, Selfish, Tyrannous

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

God, Granted, Inspirational, Prayer, Prayers, Silly

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Desire, Inspirational, Life, Probable, Spiritual, World

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

According, Christian, Essential, Evil, Pride, Teacher

But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly.

Beavers, Caught, Children, Eye, Mane, Spiritual

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